Guernsey Water unable to give end date for 'sinkhole' repairs

A culvert outside the Little Chapel collapsed on Thursday night

The team repairing a "sinkhole" has said it cannot give a date for when the work will be finished.

Guernsey Water has been repairing a culvert, which is about 1m (3.2ft) wide, outside the Little Chapel in St Andrew since Friday.

In an update, the firm said a small dam had been built to help with repair work and new pipes would be installed.

It added it could not give a definitive date for when the work, which has closed the road, would finish.

Guernsey Water said the culvert, which was first reported on Thursday, is about 6ft (1.8m) underground and has not been an "easy fix".

They said the small dam at the base of the stream feeding the culvert has given workers a dry space for the repairs, with water being pumped over the road and into a stream on the far side.

A second stream is also being pumped away from the scene, Guernsey Water added.

Job has been 'difficult'

While no final date for the work's completion can be given yet, operations manager Jon Holt said the team was working hard to get the road reopen.

Mr Holt said: "Teams have been working to engineer what is an extensive repair to the culvert inlet.

"This has been made more difficult due to having to manage the significant flow in the streams which flow into the culvert.

"The teams are working hard to enable the road to be reopened as quickly as possible."